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# How Wax Dey is Blending Law and Afrobeat
- URL: https://www.bontehmagazine.com/how-wax-dey-is-blending-law-and-afrobeat/
- Published: 2026-08-21T19:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-21T19:06:00.000Z
- Author: B. Engelbert Jr
- Tags: Africa

From the music stage to the courtroom, multiple award-winning artist Nde Ndifonka, popularly known as Wax Dey is set to launch his law firm in the USA, he announced in a social media post. The attorney, recently barred in New York, isn’t just a lawyer who sings. He has always operated across these lanes; winning music awards, celebrating legal triumphs and running music business operations, often at the same time.

Wax Dey is a law graduate from the University of Buea. Since his university days, the music executive has dabbled in multiple activities: running a documentation business, organizing events and engaging in community improvement work. Wax’s businesses prowess kicked in at a very young age.

Before the “Law and Afrobeat” became his tagline, Wax had been active in the music and law corridors. He noticed the absence of musical concerts and ventured to fill in the gap. While leading the Law Society of the University of Buea, He organized what was known as the LahSound Music Awards. This event brought together music lovers and stakeholders who, in his words, were ‘contributing to the developing UB music scene’, he said in a 2017 interview with 237Showbiz.

**AFROBEAT**

While in South Africa, and drawing from his passion for music, Wax Dey co-founded Lolhiphop Records in 2008 as an independent music recording and publishing company. Lolhiphop later released Nigerian superstar Flavour's sophomore album Uplifted — featured hit tracks like "Nwa Baby" and "Adamma” — across South Africa.

Wax isn’t just the finest music executive in Cameroon and on the African continent. His talent speaks for itself. His discography spans R&B, soul, Afropop, and Makossa. Some of his notable albums include African Dream (2010) and Number One Girl (2013). In 2016, his smash hit, “Saka Makossa" (feat. Yemi Alade), won the All Africa Music Award (AFRIMA) for Best Male Artist, Central Africa and was also nominated for Best African Pop Artist in 2019.

He’s also the author of a kid’s book which was allegedly used in South African Schools).

**THE LAW**

There’s no Wax without the legal aspect. In 2010, he “led the delegation that took Shakira to court”, he said in an interview on Arrey B Podcast. Shakira was accused of plagiarizing Cameroonian group Golden Sounds’ 1986 hit “Zangalewa”. However, they didn’t go through a lengthy public court trial as an agreement was reach in a private settlement.

 Shakira and Sony Music settled by giving the band an upfront advance reported at around $400,000 — roughly 200,760,560 XAF, based on the 2010 average exchange rate of about 501.90 XAF per USD). This legal triumph positioned Wax Dey as one of the most consequential music executives, especially in terms of publishing and author’s right in Africa.

And now, Wax Dey is taking on a different set of cases — representing immigrants in the USA through his law practice, Ndifonka Law. “Trusted counsel for immigration, creative rights, and cross‑border opportunity” reads his website.

 At a time when immigration in the USA has tightened considerably, Wax is betting heavily on his thick skin developed in the music world. Afrobeat gave Wax the leverage he’s now building a legal career on. None of these, taken in isolation, tells the full story.